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How castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga survived 18 months at sea
Fresh details have emerged of castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga's first encounter with other people after months at sea - including how Marshall Islands residents communicated with him in broken Spanish learned from popular children's television show Dora the Explorer.
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Pacific castaway says dreams of family, food sustained him
A castaway who says he survived 13 months adrift in the Pacific said on Tuesday he thought about suicide but was sustained by dreams of eating his favourite food - tortillas - and reuniting with his family.
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Man says he ate birds, turtles in 13 months adrift
It's a story that almost defies belief: A man leaves Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ends up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands some 5,500 miles (8,800 kilometres) away.
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How castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga survived 18 months at sea
Fresh details have emerged of castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga's first encounter with other people after months at sea - including how Marshall Islands residents communicated with him in broken Spanish learned from popular children's television show Dora the Explorer.
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Pacific castaway says dreams of family, food sustained him
A castaway who says he survived 13 months adrift in the Pacific said on Tuesday he thought about suicide but was sustained by dreams of eating his favourite food - tortillas - and reuniting with his family.
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Man says he ate birds, turtles in 13 months adrift
It's a story that almost defies belief: A man leaves Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ends up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands some 5,500 miles (8,800 kilometres) away.
